You may know Yi Technologies from its action cameras or its fancy, carbon-fiber drones, but at Photokina, the company launched its first mirrorless Micro Four Thirds camera, the Yi M1. Sporting a 20 mpx Sony IMX269 sensor, a high-quality 3-inch touch-screen and a raft of sharing- … | Continue reading
Snapchat heißt ab sofort Snap Inc. und das nicht ohne Grund: Chef Evan Spiegel hat die erste Hardware des Unternehmens angekündigt - eine Sonnenbrille mit Kamera. Laut The Wall Street Journal nimmt sie auf Knopfdruck 10-Sekunden-Videos in... | Continue reading
Der Rückruf des Galaxy Note 7 stellt Samsung vor mehr Probleme als erwartet. Die DHL weigert sich, die Geräte anzunehmen, weil gesetzliche Vorschriften den Transport von kaputten Akkus nur mit Ausnahmegenehmigung und in spezieller Verpackung... | Continue reading
It was the summer of 1992. Nirvana dominated the airwaves, Batman Returns squatted resolutely in multiplexes all over the world and Alan Shearer became Britain's most expensive football player with a now laughable £3.6m transfer from Southampton to Blackburn. But to be honest, I … | Continue reading
This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 75 funding deals (totalling €379 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:1) Dutch food delivery company Takeaway.com is planning to go … | Continue reading
Am 4. Oktober präsentiert Google das schon im Mai auf der Google I/O vorgestellte Google Home, das ein direkter Konkurrent zu Amazon Echo sein wird. Der vasenartige Lautsprecher soll laut Quellen via Android Police 129 Dollar kosten und damit billiger... | Continue reading
Snapchat, the company that has pushed an ephemeral messaging app for the past few years, today unveiled a new name for itself, Snap Inc., and a second product: glasses called Spectacles that feature a camera that can capture video that you can immediately share through a connecte … | Continue reading
A Google self-driving Lexus RX 450h was involved in a crash with a van in Mountain View, Calif. on Friday afternoon, according to local police. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the accident. TechCrunch has reached out to Google for more information. Two local TV stations, KRON a … | Continue reading
The dust from last week’s abrupt shuttering of Mode Media — a company once valued at $1 billion and with $100 million in revenues — is anything but settled. According to a document obtained by VentureBeat, the company had had access to $10 million in financing as recently as six … | Continue reading
Online furniture retailer Dot & Bo has closed its doors today. The San Francisco-based company said in an announcement that it had been in “deep discussions to be acquired by a prominent public company” but, after those talks broke down, it had no option but to shut down. Read Mo … | Continue reading
A day after a Daily Beast story revealed that he had donated money to an organization supporting Donald Trump’s President run, Oculus founder (and Facebook employee) Palmer Luckey has come clean about his activities. Well, kinda. Read More | Continue reading
Snapchat’s long-rumored camera glasses are actually real. The startup’s first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called “Spectacles” and will go on sale this fall for $129.99, according to The WSJ. The glasses will only come in one size, but will be available in three … | Continue reading
Palmer Luckey founded the modern VR movement and made millions of dollars selling his company to Facebook. Now, he’s using that cash to pay for a group of self-proclaimed “shitposters” who want to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election with anti-Hillary Clinton interne … | Continue reading
Four companies are rumored to be wanting to acquire Twitter, UPS is testing a drone delivery service, a helium leak could have caused the Falcon 9 explosion, Airbnb files a $555 million round with the SEC and Uber rolls out a new security measure so you get the correct driver. Al … | Continue reading
The Google Keyword Planner is a great tool for research. It’s usefulness is enhanced by the fact that it is absolutely free. You can use it to plan your next paid advertising plan, or simply to determine the best content for driving traffic to your landing pages. | Continue reading
Snapchat's first hardware product is coming to the market sooner than anyone expected. The company said tonight that it will sell Spectacles, a set of connected sunglasses that record 10-second snippets of video, for $130 sometime this fall. It also rebranded itself as Snap, Inc. … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Facebook on Friday apologized for an error in the way it measured a key metric of video viewership that significantly amplified users’ viewing times on its platform. The social media giant had said a few weeks ago that a metric for average user time on videos was arti … | Continue reading
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has denied a report that he wrote posts associated with a pro-Donald Trump group called Nimble America, or that he supports Trump as a presidential candidate. "I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and … | Continue reading
Today, we start our weekly video games recap with GIFs that may not be directly related to interactive entertainment, but they’re still worthy of your attention. This is an interesting take on classic “Pong”… …and this is an even more remarkable variation of “Duck Hunt.” Be sure … | Continue reading
Ephemeral media app Snapchat appears to be doing a little disappearing itself. A leaked video and domain records suggest that the company (though probably not the app) is preparing to rebrand as Snap, Inc. alongside its first piece of hardware, a pair of camera-equipped sunglasse … | Continue reading
Snapchat may be moving closer to launching its long-rumored wearable.A video of what appears to be a commercial for the device — apparently called "Spectacles" — has surfaced, suggesting that the company may be getting ready for a launch.The video was first spotted by Business In … | Continue reading
With the start of the new NFL season, fans across the U.S. — indeed, the world — are turning their attention to who the winners and losers will be, and who’ll be making their way to Super Bowl LI. With plenty of interactive and innovative ways for fans to get involved, perhaps th … | Continue reading
Today, the India is one of the countries where Bitcoin is increasingly being used. With a large number of people of Indian descent and nationality working abroad, Bitcoin is now leading the global remittances to India. Unocoin is one Indian Bitcoin exchange that started in June 2 … | Continue reading
There's yet more evidence that Snapchat might be working on a pair of sunglasses with a video camera built in. A promotional video for the unannounced-but-previously-rumored glasses was apparently just sitting on YouTube, and a tipster forwarded that clip to Business Insider. Whe … | Continue reading
It’s been a badly kept secret that Snapchat is hard at work on sunglasses. CEO Evan Spiegel was even photographed wearing them on a beach earlier this year. Snapchat’s not hiding its hardware ambitions. In March, CNET pointed to a string of notable hires in the space, as well as … | Continue reading
GoPro kicked off the week with a huge event in Squaw Valley, Calif., to announces its new Hero 5 Black and Hero 5 Black action cameras, and its Karma drone, and they all look suh-weet.On this week's MashTalk, Mashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff, Deputy Tech Editor Damon Be … | Continue reading
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey is bankrolling a group that creates and shares occasionally racist memes to promote Donald Trump. The organization he is support is offensive enough that some developers are pulling their support for Oculus Rift VR headset. Since The Daily Beast pu … | Continue reading
Count down three seconds in your head. It goes fast, right? I bet you did it the "one-hippopotamus way." That's actually considerably more than 3 seconds. Ask Siri to set a 3-second timer and then try to read something on the web.Exactly, it's barely enough time for a sentence, … | Continue reading
Last night, The Daily Beast reported that virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey had secretly funded a pro-Trump group called Nimble America, dedicated to promoting internet memes and "shitposting" in support of the candidate. While Luckey’s political alignment hadn’t been a secre … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Your user acquisition strategy zeroes in on high-quality users. Now you have to make that pay off. In Part 3 of VB Live’s mobile data series, marketing VPs break down how to go beyond value prop and design to amp up engagement, reduce churn, and bring lost sheep back int … | Continue reading
Robots, much like children, are now using simple games to learn important skills. Pepper, SoftBank’s adorable humanoid robot, recently learned to play ball-in-a-cup (also called ring and pin) in an effort to better understand optimal trajectory. In the beginning, SoftBank’s team … | Continue reading
With the playing of the national anthem before the first preseason game still more than a week away, the Rockets like many other NBA teams are aware of the social protests that have swept through other sports, led by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. “I don’t know … | Continue reading
Thursday’s night National Football League (NFL) contest may have resulted in the New England Patriot’s 27 to 0 shutout of the Houston Texans, but how did Twitter fare? According to the sports league, Twitter produced an average viewing audience of 327,000, which is a 34 percent w … | Continue reading
After 21 seasons in the NBA, Kevin Garnett has officially retired from the NBA. The Timberwolves released a statement with the announcement, while Kevin Garnett posted a video on Instagram saying ‘farewell.’ Current and former players around the league also took to social media t … | Continue reading
GUEST: The time has come! You and your development team have put weeks of effort perfecting your new chatbot and are finally ready to unveil your creation to the world. But building a bot is just the first step. There are tens of thousands of bots on Facebook, Slack, WeChat, and … | Continue reading
We’re approaching a level of social unrest that we haven’t seen since the days of the Civil Rights movement. That means law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out how to manage and circumvent the unrest — a lot of which has resulted from the police killings of unarmed blac … | Continue reading
Kevin Garnett turned the projected Class of 2021 at the Hall of Fame from magical to amazing when he announced his retirement Friday and started the clock on the five-year wait period to be enshrined with fellow first-ballot automatics Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan and possibly wild … | Continue reading
Pippa Middleton, the sister of Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge, has had her iCloud account hacked and thousands of private photographs stolen, according to The Independent.The information retrieved is believed to include personal photos of the royal family and of Middleto … | Continue reading
A reluctant SEO expert looks at SEO 2017 and outlines a user experience optimization model based on clicks, consumption and action. | Continue reading
Google will build upon its OnHub strategy with a new simple Wi-Fi router for the home, according to a new report from Android Police. Dubbed simply Google WiFi, It will cost $129, the site reports, and will debut at an event Google has announced for October 4, where many suspect … | Continue reading
If you're looking for mindless action, then Zombie Derby II has it in spades. Cruise through the wasteland and unlock upgrades for your vehicle all while taking on the hordes. | Continue reading
GUEST: Excitement for virtual reality has been building for some time, but come October 2016 we will enter the first round of the title fight. 2016 holiday sales will be fueled by a VR frenzy backed by billion-dollar hardware players looking to carve out their brand, customer bas … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has signed a deal to buy another 3.2 percent of its own stock from a French investment bank for $137.5 million as the video game publisher prepares to ward off a hostile takeover from Vivendi. Ubisoft has been in the middle of a takeover battle with Vivendi, a French medi … | Continue reading
Amazon might be getting a little worried.Pricing details for Google's upcoming smart speaker, the Amazon Echo-like Google Home, may have just been leaked and they suggest that Google's speaker will be a lot cheaper than Amazon's.SEE ALSO: Google sends invite for likely Pixel smar … | Continue reading
What’s a media company doing making stuffed animals that can read your emotions? Figuring out the future, apparently. Received wisdom in business is that young companies innovate so naturally that they don’t need help or special programs to foster innovation. So when a young medi … | Continue reading
If you prefer listening to the news over reading the news, you’ll soon have a new way to do so, via iTunes. In the near future, you’ll be able to browse through a variety of podcasts focused on turning media publishers’ articles and news into audio content, dubbed “Spoken Edition … | Continue reading
HP, it seems, will always be a printer company. It’s an inescapable part of the company’s DNA. Precisely what shape that takes moving ahead, however, is another question entirely. After all, printers and ink cartridges aren’t flying off the shelf like they once were, which means … | Continue reading